Unraveling the temperature-dependent spin-polarized electron transport in iron via spin-wave Doppler shift

Autor: Solano, José, Rossi, Quentin, Robert, Jerome, Lenertz, Marc, Henry, Yves, Gobaut, Benoit, Halley, David, Bailleul, Mattieu
Rok vydání: 2024
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: An electric current flowing in a ferromagnetic metal carries spin angular momentum, i.e. it is spin-polarized. Here, we measure the spin-wave Doppler shift induced by the transfer of angular momentum from the diffusive spin-polarized electric current onto coherent spin waves in epitaxial MgO/Fe/MgO thin films. We follow this Doppler shift as function of the temperature and determine that the degree of spin-polarization of the current increases from 77$\%$ to 86$\%$ when cooling the device from 303K down to 10K. Interpreting these measurements within the two-current model, we separate the contributions from electron-surface, electron-phonon and electron-magnon scatterings to the spin-dependent resistivity of Fe.
Databáze: arXiv